If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Yahotyn Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Yahotyn
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Yahotyn Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Yahotyn
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Yahotyn Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Yahotyn
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Yahotyn Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Yahotyn
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Yahotyn Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Yahotyn
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Yahotyn I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Yahotyn
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Yahotyn Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Yahotyn
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Yahotyn I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Yahotyn
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Yahotyn An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Yahotyn
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Yahotyn Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Yahotyn
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Yahotyn "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Yahotyn
